Nickola Naous

Nickola Naous

Nickola Naous is co-founder of the web hosting company Flashcloud and a website operations expert with 20 years of experience in web hosting and infrastructure. He works directly with the server-side realities of how sites perform under real-world traffic, including the growing volume of AI crawler and scraper activity.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Merchandising

Your Next Customer Might Be AI; Is Your Store Ready to Be Quoted?

June 3, 2026 at 12:20 pm

More shoppers are starting their buying journey by asking an artificial intelligence assistant instead of typing into a search bar. They ask ChatGPT which running shoe suits flat feet, or have Gemini compare two coffee makers. The AI answers in a few sentences, names a handful of products, and the shopper moves on, often without…